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Deborah_Hatton@unc.edu(919) 966-7186 |
2001-2006 Dr. Deborah Hatton, Principal Investigator/Project Director, is a Senior Scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose research and outreach projects focus on visual impairments and blindness, fragile X syndrome, and autism. She received her Ph.D. in early intervention/special education from UNC, Chapel Hill in 1995. Deborah also has a master's degree in visual disabilities from Florida State University and a bachelor's degree in education from Auburn University. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., she was an early interventionist in the area of visual impairment, a teacher of children with and without disabilities, an administrator of programs for young children with visual impairments and for children who are developing typically, and a consultant in the area of visual impairment and early childhood special education. Since 1994, Deborah has been co-director of a series of longitudinal studies of children with fragile X syndrome and has been recently appointed as director of the Subject Registry Core of the UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center. Deborah's favorite recreational activities are gardening, reading, traveling to historic sites with her husband, and spending time with her daughter and son-in-law, who live in South Carolina. |
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2001-2006 Dr. Jane Erin served as a major collaborator for the Early Intervention Training Center for Infants and Toddlers With Visual Impairments and was the principal investigator for the subcontract with the University of Arizona. She is a professor at The University of Arizona, where she has coordinated the Program in Visual Impairment since 1994. At the University she has served as head of the department of SERSP, Interim Associate Dean of the College of Education, and chair of College Council. From 1984 to 1994 she was on the faculty at the University of Texas, and previously she was a teacher and supervisor at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children. Dr. Erin and her colleagues assisted in developing, field reviewing, and field testing the modules developed by the Early Intervention Training Center for Infants and Toddlers With Visual Impairments. In addition, Dr. Erin and her colleagues developed and monitored the popular early intervention listserv sponsored by our center. In 1996 Dr. Erin received the Mary K. Bauman Award as the Outstanding Educator in Visual Impairment from the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and visually impaired. She served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness from 1998-2001, and was formerly an Executive Editor of RE:view. She co-authored Visual Impairments and Learning with Dr. Natalie Barraga and co-edited Diversity and Visual Impairment with Dr. Madeline Milian. Her current research interests are in educational outcomes related to learning media used by visually impaired students, Braille reading, and in professional roles in visual impairment. |
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2001-2006 Pam de Steiguer, at the University of Arizona, provides support to Dr. Jane Erin in her work for the Early Intervention Training Center and assists with the listserv. From 1988-1998 Pam worked in the preschool program at the Governor Morehead School in Raleigh, first as a teaching assistant and then as a staff development technician responsible for teaching software and installing and maintaining preschool computers. She moved to Tucson in 1998 when her husband joined the faculty at the University of Arizona. She has an M.A. in Teaching and Teacher Education (staff development emphasis) from the University of Arizona. Pam enjoys music, cooking, traveling with her husband, and living in the desert. |
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2002-2005 Dana Fox served as a Content Specialist with the Early Intervention Training Center. She received her bachelor's degree (1998) from Brigham Young University in educational psychology with a dual emphasis in severe/profound and mild/moderate disabilities. Upon finishing her degree she returned to North Carolina and received her certification in visual impairment from North Carolina Central University. In 2003, DanaLee received her master's degree from UNC Chapel Hill in early childhood intervention and family support. She was an itinerant teacher for children birth through age five for the Governor Morehead Preschool for the Blind and Visually Impaired before joining this project. DanaLee has strong interests in early childhood literacy and assistive technology for children with multiple impairments. DanaLee lives in Chapel Hill. She loves to travel with her friends and read in her spare time. |
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2001-2005 Yuna Lee served as a Media Specialist with the Early Intervention Training Center. She developed interactive multimedia lesson modules to be used in teacher education courses. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned her K-12 teaching credential at California State University. She received her M.Ed and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in Instructional Technology. Prior to entering the field of education, Yuna has worked as a buyer for Bloomingdales in New York and for Macy's in San Francisco. She enjoys traveling, practicing piano, and spending time with her two boys and husband. |
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2004-2006 Jeanne Lovmo Murphy is a research associate with project Emerge and the Early Intervention Training Center. She received her bachelor’s degree from Dominican College in the education of individuals with visual impairments. In 2000, She completed a Master’s degree in early childhood special education from Columbia University. From 1997 to 2002, she worked in early intervention and early childhood special education in New York City and New Jersey. Her professional interests include early literacy and disability, and inclusive education. Jeanne lives in Chapel Hill with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys spending time with her family, playing soccer, and visiting her family in Denmark. |
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2001-2003 Susan Potter was the Family Coordinator with the Early Intervention Training Center. The parent of a visually impaired child, Susan brought her own experience to the project in this role. Before having children and becoming a "professional volunteer," Susan was an institutional bond salesman in the Raleigh branch of a New York brokerage firm. She has an MBA and BS degree in Business Administration from UNC-Greensboro. Susan is a native North Carolinian and lives in Raleigh with her husband and two daughters. In addition to continuing to be an active volunteer, she loves to read and tries to watch Wall Street Week whenever she can. |
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2001-2003 L. Penny Rosenblum, Investigator, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. With colleagues Dr. Jane Erin and Dr. Irene Topor, she prepares teachers of children with visual impairments. She earned her bachelor's degree from Kutztown University (1986), her master's degree from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (1989), and her doctorate from the University of Arizona (1997). She has worked as a teacher of students with visual impairments in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Arizona. Penny worked on the Early Intervention Training Center project half time as an Investigator from 2001 to 2003. Penny is an avid cyclist and averages 3,500 miles a year in sunny Arizona. She likes to spend time with her husband Dennis, and her many good friends in Tucson |
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2002-2006 Cici Sidor is an Educational Media Specialist with the Early Intervention Training Center. She received her bachelor's degree (2002) in Technology Education with a concentration in Graphic Communications at North Carolina State University. She designs computer applications based training module software and develops Web-based technology to support the development and dissemination of project resources. She specializes in designing for accessibility of multimedia resources, particularly to individuals with visual impairments, including blindness. Cici lives in Raleigh with her husband, daughter, son, and their two dogs. She enjoys arts and crafts, gardening, Pilates, and spending time with friends and family. |
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2001-2005 Don Trull, Videophotographer/Editor, is a videophotographer, photographer, editor, and producer at FPG who holds a degree in photography from Randolph Community College. He was responsible for the video editing and for adding captioning and video description to video segments for the project. In addition, he served as project videographer. In his spare time, Don enjoys kayaking. |
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2003-2005 Barry Varela was an editor with the Early Intervention Training Center for Infants and Toddlers With Visual Impairments. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Grinnell College, he moved to New York City, where he worked for nine years as an editor for trade book publishers such as Harper & Row, Random House, and Henry Holt. In the decade of freelancing in New Orleans that followed, he edited countless books and cowrote or ghostwrote dozens of others, mainly in the field of children's literature. He has two daughters in elementary school and lives in a cohousing neighborhood in Durham. |
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2004-2006 Anne Wheeler served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Early Intervention Training Center and is currently on the faclty of the Center for Development and Learning at UNC Chapel Hill. Anne received her B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 1993, and her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. While in graduate school she completed a specialized training program for leadership development in Early Intervention and Family Services. Her research interests include social/emotional development and temperament in young children, family and maternal well-being among families raising a child with a disability, mother-child interaction patterns, and the development of a strength-based/positive psychology focus in child and family research. In her spare time Anne practices and teaches yoga and meditation techniques, and enjoys traveling to fun and exotic places. |
